Idea for The Commission Part 1: The City

My idea for "The City" is going to be about how the city is fragmented due to the presence of man made and natural elements. I want to explore this idea because I am interested how man made and natural elements interact within a space. I wish to explore this idea through the use of Multiple exposure photography which emphasises this notion of fragmentation.

Alexey Titarenko 

In this very politically agenda series "Nomenklatura of Signs" Titenrenko represents the injustice suffered by the Russian People because of  the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The series was created by overlapping of several negatives, traditional photographs, individual objects and installations. I think that the images chosen to be overlapped work well because of the complex lines and shapes created. Text also works well within this series and unusual angles because they are visually stimulating again because of different textures and architecture use.  

Yenny Huber

The series "Urban Rooms" (Top 3 images) is a global project about capturing the ethereal beauty and the overwhelming loneliness of  urban space that surrounds us. This project visibly confronts the loneliness present in large cities. In this context, loneliness refers to the emptiness within as well as the physical and psychological distance between people. By overlapping the same and different images within the same frame Huber separates each of her images into sections where the views looks at the image by the different sections   also I admire the use of street lights in this series because it gives I nice sickly glow to them.

The Series "48 Stunden/ Hours" (Bottom Two Images) explores the many faces of a city, its diversity and contradictions, it looks not only at places of wealth and prosperity but also those than have been neglected and forgotten. It engages with the deep complexity that is embedded within every centre of history and culture. I admire the strong a vibrant colours produced by using a Lomography Camera because it draws the attention of the user and helps the viewer engage with it more. 

Hans Malm

Our Planets Continents are in constant motion, Geologists predict that within 250 million years virtually all landmasses with merge into one super continent, in this series "Forecast" Malm travels all over the world, shoots a roll of film in one city and then rewinds the film and shoots the same roll in a different city in a different country. The Resulting double exposures shows different cities, countries and continents merged together. This series is an attempt at showing the future- although this in itself goes against the very nature of photography. I find his double exposures to be quite subtle and contradictory  dreamlike because of the simpleness of the chosen location to shoot but dreamlike because of the complex shapes, lines and tones created. 

Lee Friedlander 

Friedlander photographs the street in car mirrors which makes the city seem fragmented, this is further backed up how he splits his images up through using a frame within a frame which makes the viewer look at the pieces individually rather than as a whole image.

Jason Evans

In the series titiled NYLPT, evans photographs everyday life on the streets of London, New York, Paris and Toyko and combines the photographs in an usunual way trhough double exposure. I find theese images to be very visually interested and complex which I think has this chatoic theme to the work as well the use of under and overexposing different elemments to create these double exposures.

Contextual Research

•Green Belt Land cover 13% of land area in the UK
•Today the Green belt is 32,000 hectares smaller than It was in 2003
•Nick Bowels the Planning Minister for the Government says that 1,500 square miles of Open Countryside will be needed to build housing to keep up with the demand.
•The Urban Population of the UK is nearly 80%